Mary Lou Jepsen

...Laptop Per Child (OLPC) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT. Mary Lou Jepsen, Alan Kay and Nicholas Negroponte unveil the $100 laptop. In November 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis,...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wired, Velti, Being Digital, Dow Jones & Company, New York City, World Summit, and Choate Rosemary Hall

...had never before designed a laptop. In 2005, Negroponte named her CTO and charged her with developing the screen-a new kind of LCD-around which the processor, keyboard, memory and network would wrap. At that same time, Negroponte hunted...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Quanta, MIT, Inventec, Taipei Times, and AMD

Mary Lou Jepsen's eye patch proves more popular than many of Negroponte's ideas [One Laptop Per Child] Arrrrrrrrr! Readers who watched computer-display innovator Mary Lou Jepsen yesterday had only one question: WTF with the eye patch. I...

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...entire first year of the effort was the only employee of One Laptop per Child OLP. By the end of 2005, she had completed the initial architecture, led the development of the first prototype (which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan unveiled...

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...was just trying to create a supercheap laptop. In 2005, Jepsen, a pioneering LCD screen designer, was tapped to lead the development of the machine that would become known as One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte, the longtime MIT Media...

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...company, Pixel Qi. Credit: Pixel Qi In 2005, Mary Lou Jepsen joined Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's Media Lab, to build a $100 laptop for each of the poorest children of the world. As CTO of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC)...

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...space for new keys such as a future "view source" key. Beneath the keyboard was a large area that resembled a very wide touchpad that Jepsen referred to as the "mousepad". The central third was a capacitive sensor that could be used...

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...use Windows software in schools. Pixel Qi, the display-technology startup founded by former OLPC chief technology officer Mary Lou Jepsen, will collaborate in the development of the new computer. Its smaller size will make the laptops...

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